Publishing Perspectives Forum at the 2023 Frankfurter Buchmesse

Online and in-person events from international book industry magazine Publishing Perspectives

PP Forum at Frankfurt 2023

18–20 October, 2023 at the Frankfurt Book Fair: This three-day program takes place in the Congress Center, Level 2, Room Spektrum. See our program schedule below. In addition to our regular international programming, the PP Forum is hosting:

Kids Mini-Conference on Wed. afternoon
Audio Mini-Conference on Thu. afternoon
Scholarly publishing program on Fri. morning

This program is FREE for all registered Frankfurt Book Fair attendees.

Featured Speakers

Nihar Malaviya
CEO, Penguin Random House — USA

Kim Chongsatitwatana
CEO, Nanmeebooks — Thailand

Peter Warwick
CEO, Scholastic — USA

Anna Soler-Pont
Founder, Pontas Literary & Film Agency — Spain

Jes Wolfe
CEO and Chairwoman, Rebel Girls — USA

Nadim Sadek
Founder and CEO, Shimmr AI — UK

Maria Garbutt-Lucero
Publicity Director, Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton — UK

Pedro Sobral
CEO, Grupo Leya — Portugal

Program: PP Forum at Frankfurt 2023

Select a date below to see that day's program:

Time	Session Info
10:00 - 10:45 am	Executive Talk: Nihar Malaviya, CEO, Penguin Random House Nihar Malaviya, CEO, Penguin Random House — United States Moderator: Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives — United States
11:00 - 11:45 am	Independent Publishing Around the World Sharky Chen, Founder, Comma Books; President, Indie Publishers Association of Taiwan Tom Kraushaar, Publishing Director, Klett-Cotta — Germany Sevani Matos, President, Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL) — Brazil Melissa Wakhu, CEO, Sol Kids Africa — Kenya Moderator: Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives — United States
12:00 – 12:45 pm	Engaging the Next Generation of Readers Maria Garbutt-Lucero, Founder, ESEA Publishing Network; Publicity Director, Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton — United Kingdom Sean McManus, President, Dreamscape Media — United States Jes Wolfe, CEO and Chairwoman, Rebel Girls — United States Moderator: Erin Cox, US publicist, Frankfurt Book Fair — United States
1:00 - 1:45 pm	Rights and Translation in the Arab World Supported by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award Lina Chebaro, Rights Director and Chief Editor, Arab Scientific Publishers — Lebanon Yasmina Jraissati, Literary Agent and Founder, RAYA Agency — United Arab Emirates Michel Moushabeck, Founder, Interlink Publishing — United States Moderator: Hannah Johnson, Publisher, Publishing Perspectives
2:00 - 2:20 pm	Kids Mini-Conference: Peter Warwick in Conversation Peter Warwick, CEO, Scholastic — United States Moderator: Hannah Johnson, Publisher, Publishing Perspectives
2:25 - 3:10 pm	Kids Mini-Conference: Marketing Books to Schools in partnership with BookMachine Mariam AlObeidli, Managing Director, Kalimat Group — United Arab Emirates Hilary Fine, Education Development Director, DK — United Kingdom Eduardo Kruel Rodrigues, Senior Manager, Saber Educação; Chair of the Educational Publishers Forum of Latin America — Brazil Moderator: Laura Summers, Director and Co-Founder, BookMachine — United Kingdom
3:15 - 4:00 pm	Kids Mini-Conference: Global Growth in Comics and Graphic Novels Tina McIntyre, Interim Head of Global Publishing and Head of Marketing, Wattpad WEBTOON Studios — United States David Saylor, VP, Creative Director \| Publisher, Graphix / Scholastic — United States Alessandra Sternfeld, CEO and Founder, Am-Book — United States Moderator: Erin Cox, US publicist, Frankfurt Book Fair — United States

Time	Session Info
10:00 - 10:45 am	Executive Talk: Kim Chongsatitwatana, CEO, Nanmee Kim Chongsatitwatana, CEO, Nanmee — Thailand Moderator: Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives — United States
11:00 - 11:45 am	Sustainability for Small- and Medium-Sized Publishers Sherri Aldis, Director, UN Regional Information Centre for Western Europe — Belgium Rachel Martin, Global Director of Sustainability, Elsevier — Netherlands Moderator: Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives — United States
12:00 – 12:45 pm	The State of AI in Publishing Today Christoph Bläsi, Professor for Book Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz — Germany Nadim Sadek, Founder and CEO, Shimmr AI — United Kingdom Anna Soler-Pont, Literary Agent and Founder, Pontas Literary & Film Agency — Spain Moderator: Thomas Cox, Managing Director, Arq Works — United Kingdom
1:00 - 1:45 pm	TBA
2:00 - 2:10 pm	Audio Mini-Conference: Opening Keynote Video Dion Graham, Actor and Narrator — United States
2:15 - 2:55 pm	Audio Mini-Conference: The Evolving Audio Marketplace Mariana Féged, General Manager, Spanish Markets, Bookwire — Spain Victoria Gerken, Publisher, Podium — United States Moderator: Erin Cox, US publicist, Frankfurt Book Fair — United States
3:00 - 3:35 pm	Audio Mini-Conference: Does Size Really Matter? Audio and Small Markets in partnership with Slovenia Guest of Honor 2023 Alma Čaušević Klemenčič, CEO, Beletrina Academic Press — Slovenia Pedro Sobral, CEO, Grupo Leya — Portugal Bence Sárközy, CEO, Libri Publishing House — Hungary Moderator: Nathan Hull, Chief Strategy Officer, Beat Technology — United Kingdom
3:40 - 4:00 pm	Audio Mini-Conference: Audible Matthew Gain, Senior Vice President and Head of Audible Europe, Managing Director Audible GmbH — Germany
4:00 - 4:45 pm	Audio Mini-Conference: Bookwire Audio Networking Reception Stay for refreshments and networking with international audio experts.

Charleston Conference at Frankfurt Book Fair 2023

Time	Session Info
9:30 - 10:00 am	Networking Breakfast
10:00 - 11:00 am	Research Integrity: Technology, Trust, and Transparency Panel/fireside chat with moderated questions to a panel of experts on the topics such as the recent Wiley/Hindawi and MDPI retractions, paper mills, AI-generated content, AI-manipulated images, and how can libraries become involved? Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director, Berghahn Books Peter Brantley, Director of Online Strategy, University of California Davis Library Stuart Whayman, Managing Director - Researchers & Librarians, Elsevier Moderator: Sven Fund, Senior Director, Knowledge Unlatched
11:00 am – 12:00 pm	Sustainability and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Looking Forward at Business Models, SDGs, and Beyond There are many types of sustainability - from sustainable business models to sustainable development goals, and more. Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on what sustainability means in many contexts. This hour-long session will include a series of short presentations followed by panel discussion and audience Q&A. Heather Staines, Director of Community Engagement and Senior Consultant, DeltaThink Rafael Ball, Director, ETH Library, ETH Zurich Rachel Martin, Global Director of Sustainability, Elsevier Richard Gallagher, President and Editor-in-Chief, Annual Reviews Moderator: Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub

Time

Session Info

9:30 - 10:00 am

Networking Breakfast

10:00 - 11:00 am

Research Integrity: Technology, Trust, and Transparency

Panel/fireside chat with moderated questions to a panel of experts on the topics such as the recent Wiley/Hindawi and MDPI retractions, paper mills, AI-generated content, AI-manipulated images, and how can libraries become involved?

Vivian Berghahn, Managing Director, Berghahn Books
Peter Brantley, Director of Online Strategy, University of California Davis Library
Stuart Whayman, Managing Director - Researchers & Librarians, Elsevier
Moderator: Sven Fund, Senior Director, Knowledge Unlatched

11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Sustainability and the Future of Scholarly Communication: Looking Forward at Business Models, SDGs, and Beyond

There are many types of sustainability - from sustainable business models to sustainable development goals, and more. Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on what sustainability means in many contexts. This hour-long session will include a series of short presentations followed by panel discussion and audience Q&A.

Heather Staines, Director of Community Engagement and Senior Consultant, DeltaThink
Rafael Ball, Director, ETH Library, ETH Zurich
Rachel Martin, Global Director of Sustainability, Elsevier
Richard Gallagher, President and Editor-in-Chief, Annual Reviews
Moderator: Leah Hinds, Executive Director, Charleston Hub

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Join international trade magazine Publishing Perspectives at our ongoing series of in-person and online events that highlight people, issues, and trends shaping the international publishing industry.

The Forum debuted at the 2022 Frankfurter Buchmesse with two days of talks with industry executives, independent publishers and entrepreneurs, and people building tech platforms that power the book business.

Interested in working with us? Contact Hannah Johnson, hannah@publishingperspectives.com.

Wed. 19 October 2022	Thu. 20 October 2022
10:00 - 10:45 am Executive Talk: Charlie Redmayne, CEO, HarperCollins UK Charlie Redmayne, CEO, HarperCollins UK — United Kingdom Moderator: Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives — United States	10:00 - 10:45 am Executive Talk: Núria Cabutí, CEO, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Núria Cabutí, CEO, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial — Spain Moderator: Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives — United States
11:00 - 11:45 am The "Cost" of Doing Business in 2022 Maddalena Fossombroni, Bookseller and CEO, Todo Modo – Italy Sidharta Ochoa, Founder, Abismos Editorial — Mexico David Taylor, Senior Vice President, Content Acquisition International, Ingram Content Group — United Kingdom Moderator: Erin L. Cox, US Publicist, Frankfurter Buchmesse — United States	11:00 - 11:45 am Nonfiction Publishing in the Age of Misinformation Trasvin Jittidecharak, Founder, Silkworm Books — Thailand Niko Pfund, President and Academic Publisher, Oxford University Press USA — United States Arabella Pike, Publishing Director, William Collins Books — United Kingdom Moderator: Erin L. Cox, US Publicist, Frankfurter Buchmesse — United States
12:00 – 12:45 pm The Future of Storytelling and Engagement Lex Brookman, Marketing and Communications Consultant, Tandem Collective — United Kingdom Christine Chong, Publisher, Tusitala Books — Singapore Tobias Henning, General Manager, TikTok Germany and Central Eastern Europe — Germany Sam Taylor, Film producer and Founder, Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) — United Kingdom Moderator: Erin L. Cox, US Publicist, Frankfurter Buchmesse — United States	12:00 - 12:45 pm The Audiobook Retail Evolution Sharon Baiden, Product and Marketing Manager, AkooBooks Audio — United Kingdom Nathan Hull, Chief Strategy Officer, Beat Technology — United Kingdom Jens Klingelhöfer, CEO and Co-Founder, Bookwire — Germany Moderator: Hannah Johnson, Publisher, Publishing Perspectives — United States
1:00 - 1:45 pm Executive Talk: Jonny Geller on Books-to-Screen Development Jonny Geller, CEO, Curtis Brown — United Kingdom Moderator: Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives — United States	1:00 - 1:45 Independent Publishing Outlook for 2023 Ūla Ambrasaitė, Founder, LAPAS Books — Lithuania Wil Harris, CEO, Unbound — United Kingdom Pei-Shan Huang, Publisher, Slowork Publishing — Taiwan Tom Kraushaar, Publisher, Klett-Cotta — Germany Moderator: Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives — United States
2:00 - 2:45 pm Growing the Book Business in the Arab World Sherif Bakr, Publisher, Al Arabi Publishing and Distributing — Egypt Shereen Kreidieh, Publisher, Dar Asala — Lebanon Moderator: Hannah Johnson, Publisher, Publishing Perspectives — United States	2:00 - 2:45 Small is Beautiful: The Book Businesses in Small and Niche Markets Benas Berantas, literary agent and Founder, Book Smugglers Agency — Lithuania Senja Požar, Senior Rights Manager, Mladinska knjiga — Slovenia Lawrence Schimel, author, publisher and translator — Spain Urpu Strellman, literary agent and CEO, Helsinki Literary Agency — Finland Moderator: Rüdiger Wischenbart, Founder, Content and Consulting — Austria
3:00 - 3:45 pm How the Article-Based Economy is Transforming Research Publishing Tobias Kuhn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — Netherlands Liz Ferguson, Senior Vice President, Research Publishing, Wiley — United Kingdom Philipp Hess, Head of Publisher Relations, ResearchGate — Germany Dr. Olaf Ernst, Chief Solutions Officer, oable — Germany Dr. Irina Sens, Head of Library Operations, TIB Hannover — Germany Moderator: Sven Fund, Senior Director, Knowledge Unlatched — Germany	3:00 - 3:45 What Young Readers Need Today: Children’s Publishing CEOs in Conversation Clemens Maier, CEO, Ravensburger — Germany Peter Warwick, President and CEO, Scholastic — United States In conversation with: Juergen Boos, President and CEO, Frankfurter Buchmesse — Germany

Wed. 19 October 2022

Thu. 20 October 2022

10:00 - 10:45 am
Executive Talk: Charlie Redmayne, CEO, HarperCollins UK

Charlie Redmayne, CEO, HarperCollins UK — United Kingdom
Moderator: Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives — United States

10:00 - 10:45 am
Executive Talk: Núria Cabutí, CEO, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial

Núria Cabutí, CEO, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial — Spain
Moderator: Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives — United States

11:00 - 11:45 am
The "Cost" of Doing Business in 2022

Maddalena Fossombroni, Bookseller and CEO, Todo Modo – Italy
Sidharta Ochoa, Founder, Abismos Editorial — Mexico
David Taylor, Senior Vice President, Content Acquisition International, Ingram Content Group — United Kingdom
Moderator: Erin L. Cox, US Publicist, Frankfurter Buchmesse — United States

11:00 - 11:45 am
Nonfiction Publishing in the Age of Misinformation

Trasvin Jittidecharak, Founder, Silkworm Books — Thailand
Niko Pfund, President and Academic Publisher, Oxford University Press USA — United States
Arabella Pike, Publishing Director, William Collins Books — United Kingdom
Moderator: Erin L. Cox, US Publicist, Frankfurter Buchmesse — United States

12:00 – 12:45 pm
The Future of Storytelling and Engagement

Lex Brookman, Marketing and Communications Consultant, Tandem Collective — United Kingdom
Christine Chong, Publisher, Tusitala Books — Singapore
Tobias Henning, General Manager, TikTok Germany and Central Eastern Europe — Germany
Sam Taylor, Film producer and Founder, Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) — United Kingdom
Moderator: Erin L. Cox, US Publicist, Frankfurter Buchmesse — United States

12:00 - 12:45 pm
The Audiobook Retail Evolution

Sharon Baiden, Product and Marketing Manager, AkooBooks Audio — United Kingdom
Nathan Hull, Chief Strategy Officer, Beat Technology — United Kingdom
Jens Klingelhöfer, CEO and Co-Founder, Bookwire — Germany
Moderator: Hannah Johnson, Publisher, Publishing Perspectives — United States

1:00 - 1:45 pm
Executive Talk: Jonny Geller on Books-to-Screen Development

Jonny Geller, CEO, Curtis Brown — United Kingdom
Moderator: Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives — United States

1:00 - 1:45
Independent Publishing Outlook for 2023

Ūla Ambrasaitė, Founder, LAPAS Books — Lithuania
Wil Harris, CEO, Unbound — United Kingdom
Pei-Shan Huang, Publisher, Slowork Publishing — Taiwan
Tom Kraushaar, Publisher, Klett-Cotta — Germany
Moderator: Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishing Perspectives — United States

2:00 - 2:45 pm
Growing the Book Business in the Arab World

Sherif Bakr, Publisher, Al Arabi Publishing and Distributing — Egypt
Shereen Kreidieh, Publisher, Dar Asala — Lebanon
Moderator: Hannah Johnson, Publisher, Publishing Perspectives — United States

2:00 - 2:45
Small is Beautiful: The Book Businesses in Small and Niche Markets

Benas Berantas, literary agent and Founder, Book Smugglers Agency — Lithuania
Senja Požar, Senior Rights Manager, Mladinska knjiga — Slovenia
Lawrence Schimel, author, publisher and translator — Spain
Urpu Strellman, literary agent and CEO, Helsinki Literary Agency — Finland
Moderator: Rüdiger Wischenbart, Founder, Content and Consulting — Austria

3:00 - 3:45 pm
How the Article-Based Economy is Transforming Research Publishing

Tobias Kuhn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam — Netherlands
Liz Ferguson, Senior Vice President, Research Publishing, Wiley — United Kingdom
Philipp Hess, Head of Publisher Relations, ResearchGate — Germany
Dr. Olaf Ernst, Chief Solutions Officer, oable — Germany
Dr. Irina Sens, Head of Library Operations, TIB Hannover — Germany
Moderator: Sven Fund, Senior Director, Knowledge Unlatched — Germany

3:00 - 3:45
What Young Readers Need Today: Children’s Publishing CEOs in Conversation

Clemens Maier, CEO, Ravensburger — Germany
Peter Warwick, President and CEO, Scholastic — United States
In conversation with: Juergen Boos, President and CEO, Frankfurter Buchmesse — Germany

Arabic Genre Fiction: A Growing Trend and Translation Opportunity

3:00 pm on May 25, 2023 at the Abu Dhabi Book International Fair

The popularity and accessibility of genre fiction—such as mystery, fantasy, sci-fi, horror, and more—are on the rise in the Arab world. These types of books are not only drawing in more Arabic readers, but also have the potential to transcend borders and languages.

This B2B publishing event is free to attend and made possible by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, in cooperation with international book trade magazine Publishing Perspectives.

Speakers:

Ali Abdel-Moneim Ahmed, publisher, publishing & partnerships consultant
Jessica Papin, vice president and literary agent, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret
Ahmed Rashad, CEO, Al Dar Al Masriah Al Lubnaniah
Moderator: Porter Anderson, editor-in-chief, Publishing Perspectives

PP Forum at Frankfurt 2023

Featured Speakers

Nihar Malaviya CEO, Penguin Random House — USA

Kim Chongsatitwatana CEO, Nanmeebooks — Thailand

Peter Warwick CEO, Scholastic — USA

Anna Soler-Pont Founder, Pontas Literary & Film Agency — Spain

Jes Wolfe CEO and Chairwoman, Rebel Girls — USA

Nadim Sadek Founder and CEO, Shimmr AI — UK

Maria Garbutt-Lucero Publicity Director, Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton — UK

Pedro Sobral CEO, Grupo Leya — Portugal